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Neutrum versus nonneutrum (a pragmatic-cognitive aspect of the category of gender)
Vondráček, Miloslav
Neutrum versus nonneutrum (a pragmatic-cognitive aspect of the category of gender) Abstrakt angl.: Gender has become a rather formal linguistic category. However, masculines, feminines and neutra are projected in language users´ minds as namings for male, female and immature beings. Czech language has several means of establishing a hierarchy of gender distinguishing/indifferent naming means. Gender partly appears as a cognitive category. A pronoun which belongs in the system to those non-expressing gender gains a particular gender semantics in real speech, which is formally projected into congruent forms; we talk about ourselves as about male or female beings.The paper presents a documentary of a communicative use of a (dis)harmony between gender implications of nouns and awareness of their holders´ sexual membership.
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